Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>(This is on topic because the GR1 is my M6 back-up...) > >Has anybody with a Ricoh GR1 experienced the following problem (and have >the solution!): > >I turn on the camera and the lens moves out, I press the release and the >lens move a little bit further to focus, so far OK, but when I press the >release further the camera just rattles four-five times at very high >frequency, and then lens withdraws to the standby position, but the shutter >has never opened and thus there is no picture. > >I have taken out the battery and put it back in, no change. >The same thing happens with flash on or off, with distance preset and not, >and with program mode on and with aperture preset and with automatic mode. >In short the thing never works! > >-- >christer almqvist >eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 >14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 Christer, This has happened once when the battery was nearly dead. New battery = everything OK. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com